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Professional
Background| K. Zimmerer (Ed.). 2006. Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. |  |
| K. Zimmerer (Ed., with K.R. Young). 1998. Nature’s Geography: New Lessons for Conservation in Developing Countries. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. |  |
K. Zimmerer. 1996. Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
K. Zimmerer. 2003. Geographies of Seed Networks and Approaches to Agrobiodiversity Conservation. Society & Natural Resources, Volume 16: 583-601. |
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| K. Zimmerer (Ed., with T.J. Bassett). 2003. Political Ecology: An Integrative Approach to Geography and Environment-Development Studies. New York: Guilford Publications; includes “Approaching political ecology: Society, nature, and scale in human-environment studies” (pages 1-25); also “Environmental zonation and mountain agriculture” (pages 141-169); “Future directions in political ecology” (pages 275-296). |  |
K. Zimmerer. 2003. Just Small Potatoes (and Ulluco)? The Use of Seed-Size Variation in ‘Native Commercialized’ Agriculture and Agrobiodiversity Conservation among Peruvian Farmers. Agriculture and Human Values 20: 107-123. K. Zimmerer. 2002. Agrodiversidad de las comunidades de montaña, in Montañas del mundo: una prioridad global con perspectives latinoamericanas, Ed. F. Sarmiento, pages 429-443. Quito, Ecuador: Abya-Yala. K. Zimmerer. 2002. Common Field Agriculture as a Cultural Landscape of Latin America: Development and History in the Geographical Customs of Land Use. Journal of Cultural Geography 19(2): 37-63. K. Zimmerer. 2002. Conservation and Sustainability in Latin America and the Caribbean (with Eric Carter). Yearbook of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG Yearbook) Volume 27: 207-250. K. Zimmerer. 2002. "Re-scaling irrigation in Latin America: The cultural images and political ecology of water resources." Ecumene 7(2): 150-175 K. Zimmerer. 2002. Social and agroenvironmental variability of seed production and the potential collaborative breeding of potatoes in the Andean countries.” In Farmers, Scientists, and Plant Breeding: Integrating Knowledge and Practice, Eds. D.A. Cleveland and D. Soleri, pp. 83-107 (Chapter 4). Wallingham: CABI International. K. Zimmerer. 2002. Ecological history and imperialism. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. N.J. Smelser and P.B. Bates, Volume 2, pages 4026-4027. Oxford: Elsevier. K. Zimmerer. 2001. "Geography and advances in the new ethnobiology: Links to a proposed ethno_landscape ecology." Geographical Review 91(4):725-734. K. Zimmerer. 2000. "The reworking of conservation geographies: Nonequilibrium landscapes and nature-society hybrids." Annals of the Association of America Geographers I90(2):356-370 |
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Courses Taught
Geography 303, The Human Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Geography 339, Environmental Conservation
Geography 535, Environmental Geography and Conservation in Developing Countries
Geography 548, Advanced Geography of Latin America
Geography 766, Geographical Inquiry and Analysis: Techniques
Geography 930, Seminar in People-Environment Geography
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Graduate Students
Eric Carter. Malaria Eradication and Political Ecological Change.
Diana Downes. An Aldo Leopold Conservation Effort near Madison.
Ryan Galt. The Political Ecology of Pesticide Use.
Fernando González. Weed Invasion in Andean Agriculture.
Stephanie Larson. Seed Exchange of Maize in Small-Scale Agriculture.
Chris Rosin. Agricultural Environments and Trade Agreements.
Mike Batek. Mountain Woodlands and Conservation in the Tropics.
Contact Information
Dr. Karl Zimmerer
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Geography
550 North Park Street
Madison, WI 53706-1404Phone (608) 262-1855
Fax (608) 265-3991355 Science Hall
zimmerer@wisc.edu
* Currently on-leave for 2007 - 2008
